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Richard Hakluyt's Discourse of western planting
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1501-1600/hakluyt/plant.htm
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/vaindians.htm A clearinghouse for
information about particular tribes native to Virginia as well as providing
access to homepages for some of the tribes.
The National Park Service
compiled detailed information about the lifestyle of the Powhatan tribe
http://www.nps.gov/colo/Jthanout/Indianlife.html
The First Charter of Virginia, 1606
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/va01.htm
King James grants the right to settle and develop Virginia, orders the manner of
its government, and requires royalties of one-fifth of any gold extracted.
Instructions for
the Virginia Colony, 1606
http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/docs/texts/virginia_instructions.html
Plan for settlement drawn up by the backers of the colony.
"Above all things, do not advertise the killing of any of your men, that the
country people may know it; if they perceive that they are but common men, and
that with the loss of many of theirs they diminish any part of yours, they will
make many adventures upon you. If the country be populous, you shall do well
also, not to let them see or know of your sick men, if you have any; which may
also encourage them to many enterprizes."
Jamestown Rediscovery,
http://www.apva.org/jr.html. This has a
fascinating virtual display cabinet of all sorts of archaeological finds that
tell the history of Jamestown.
Http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vcdh/jamestown
offers a virtual visit to 17th Century Jamestown. It is an interactive site
that includes maps and images, court records, labor contracts, public records,
first hand accounts and letters, newspapers, and a wide variety of references.
John Smith, "The Colony of Jamestown," 1607
http://www.nationalcenter.org/SettlementofJamestown.html
Participant account of the settlement at Jamestown, Virginia, by its most
prominent leader.
"It might well be thought, a country so fair (as Virginia is) and a people so
tractable, would long ere this have been quietly possessed, to the satisfaction
of the adventurers, and the eternizing of the memory of those that effected it.
But because all the world do see a failure; this following treatise shall give
satisfaction to all indifferent readers, how the business has been carried:
where no doubt they will easily understand and answer to their question, how it
came to pass there was no better speed and success in those proceedings."
What Can You Get
By Warre: Powhatan Exchanges Views with Captain John Smith, 1608
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5838/
"What will it availe you to take that by force you may quickly have by love,
or to destroy them that provide you food. What can you get by warre, when we can
hide our provisions and fly to the woods? whereby you must famish by wronging us
your friends. And why are you thus jealous of our loves seeing us unarmed, and
both doe, and are willing still to feede you, with that you cannot get but by
our labours?"
An Ordinance and
Constitution of the Virginia Company in England, 1621
http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/docs/texts/ordinanc.html
A plan for the reorganization of Virginia's government.
"Provided, that no law or ordinance, made in the said general assembly, shall
be or continue in force or validity, unless the same shall be solemnly ratified
and confirmed, in a general quarter court of the said company here in England,
and so ratified, be returned to them under our seal; it being our intent to
afford the like measure also unto the said colony, that after the government of
the said colony shall once have been well framed, and settled accordingly, which
is to be done by us, as by authority derived from his majesty, and the same
shall have been so by us declared, no orders of court afterwards, shall bind the
said colony, unless they be ratified in like manner in the general assemblies."
Our Plantation Is Very Weak: The Experiences of an Indentured Servant in
Virginia, 1623
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6475/
"This is to let you understand that I your child am in a most heavy case by
reason of the country, [which] is such that it causeth much sickness, [such] as
the scurvy and the bloody flux and diverse other diseases, which maketh the body
very poor and weak. And when we are sick there is nothing to comfort us; for
since I came out of the ship I never ate anything but peas, and loblollie (that
is, water gruel). As for deer or venison I never saw any since I came into this
land."
From Servant to
Freeholder: Status Mobility and Property Accumulation in Seventeenth-Century
Maryland - Russell Menard, William & Mary Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 1,
(Jan., 1973), pp. 37-64 - available via JSTOR.
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0043-5597%28197301%293%3A30%3A1%3C37%3AFSTFSM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-6
The James River Plantations,
http://www.jamesriverplantations.org/ where you can uncover the visit Virginia's plantation elite and most powerful people from the 1600 and 1700s.
A Women's Work is Never Done: Online Exhibition from the American Antiquarian
Society,
http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Exhibitions/Womanswork/ A very
well done online exhibit with many applications, including the history of market
revolution.
Http://lcWeb2.loc.gov/amhome.html
is the Library of Congress’s American Memory project. It is an expansive
archive of American history and culture featuring photographs, prints, motion
pictures, manuscripts, maps, and sound recordings going back to roughly 1490.
Currently this site includes more than seven million digital items from more
than 100 collections on subjects ranging from African-American political
pamphlets to California folk music, from baseball to the Civil War.
Http://www.earlyamerica.com
contains primary source material from 18th Century America--all displayed
digitally. A unique array of original newspapers, maps and writings are
available for you to browse. The archival materials are displayed in their
original formats so they can be read and examined close-up
http://www.claytoncramer.com/primary.html A number of primary sources and
other resources for early American history
The best William Berkeley site on the web is
http://www.uno.edu/~history/berkeley.htm
William Berkeley writing about Bacon's Rebellion
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1651-1700/bacon_rebel/berke.htm
Maryland Toleration Act, 1649
http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/docs/texts/maryland.htm
Early declaration of religious freedom with notable restrictions.
"And whereas the inforceing of the conscience in matters of Religion hath
frequently fallen out to be of dangerous Consequence in those commonwealthes
where it hath been practised, And for the more quiett and peaceable governement
of this Province, and the better to preserve mutuall Love and amity amongst the
Inhabitants thereof, Be it...enacted...that noe person or persons whatsoever
within this Province, or the Islands, Ports, Harbors, Creekes, or havens
thereunto belonging professing to beleive in Jesus Christ, shall from henceforth
bee any waies troubled, Molested or discountenanced for or in respect of his or
her religion nor in the free exercise thereof within this Province or the
Islands thereunto belonging nor any way compelled to the beleife or exercise of
any other Religion against his or her consent, soe as they be not unfaithfull to
the Lord Proprietary, or molest or conspire against the civill Governement
established or to bee established in this Province under him or his heires."
Chronology of Bacon's Rebellion
http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~rpekarek/baconchron.html
Bacon's address to the people
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1651-1700/bacon_rebel/bacon.htm
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the
Americas: A Visual Record,
http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/.
This contains hundreds of pictorial images of slavery and the slave trade in
Africa, the Caribbean, and North America.
Virginia Runaways,
http://www.wise.virginia.edu/history/runaways/.
This contains a fully searchable database of 18th-century runaway slave ads from
Virginia newspapers, which are great for researching about slavery and resistance.
Patrick Henry home and website
http://www.redhill.org
Thomas Jefferson's home Monticello
http://monticello.org
Collection of primary sources from all time periods:
http://www2.pitnet.net/primarysources/
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/index.htm
Historical
Geography Research Guide
http://www.lib.jmu.edu/history/histgeog.html
The Transatlantic 1790s: Projects, Chronology, Bibliography
http://www.math.grinnell.edu/1790s/
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